As rents rise amid a shortage of affordable properties, a researcher says more people are returning to sharing
In December 2022, Van Beem posted on local Facebook groups looking for other single parents to move into a share house with her and her daughter. While the post didn’t proffer a housemate, it did prove she was not alone.“I got so many messages from people that were in the same situation saying that they would be interested … but it’s hard to find a single parent that is wanting or needing the same things.
While Van Beem is still weighing up the pros and cons of living with another family, rentals on the market arefeels it is harder to apply for properties as a single income earner. The director of economic research at PropTrack, Cameron Kusher, says with rents up 19% across Australia, there are more people seeking to share their home..“If you had a house of five with five people working from home … it wasn’t very feasible to be doing that. If you look at rents in Sydney and Melbourne, they dropped quite a lot during Covid, so there was an opportunity to go and rent yourself a one-bedroom apartment.
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